page_title: Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné
section_title: Return to France
hierarchical_section_title: Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné / Return to France
context_page_description: Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné was a French prelate and politician of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  While Archbishop of Paris, he was elected deputy of the clergy to the Estates General of 1789.
context_section_description: He returned to Paris in 1802, after the promulgation of the Concordat, and without difficulty resigned, at the hands of Pope Pius VII who asked for it, his archdiocese on 31 January 1802.
  Juigné then lived in retirement among his family, beloved by his old diocesans, limiting his pleasures to solitary walks, where he was astonished to be welcomed by a crowd of silent homages addressed much to his dignity, on which he bore no discernable mark. He visited with an inimitable simplicity his successor at Paris, Jean-Baptiste de Belloy, in the palace formerly his own, where both exercised respect and maintained the best relations.
  On 21 March 1808, Napoleon named him canon of the Imperial chapter of Saint-Denis, and created him Count of the Empire on 7 June 1808.
  He died in Paris on 19 March 1811, in his 83rd year, and was buried in a common grave. In the service which the metropolitan chapter gave him, Abbot Jallabert, vicar-general, pronounced his funeral oration. On the king's return, the chapter, with permission, had the body of De Juigné exhumed and transported to the vault of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
  "His principles were pure, his zeal equally removed from slackening and exaggeration, his mind unceasingly occupied with that which could serve the Church." He joined in the happiest memory the love of serious studies, and had a taste for good literature. He was fluent in Greek, the Bible was his favorite reading, he knew it by heart, and any passage quoted to him, he indicated at once the book, chapter, and verse.
  A monument was erected to him and his brother, the Marquis de Juigné, in the  Cathedral of Paris.
caption: Posthumous portrait of Antoine Leclerc de Juigné
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